Waking

Trish woke up in another unfamiliar place, but the smell was recgonizable. It smelled like a dumpster, like the dumpster outside her apartment. Trish opened one eye, that was all she was capable of seeing out of, and crawled out of the dumpster. Sure enough she was outside her apartment complex staring at he night sky. She stood up and checked her pockets, her keys were still there, but her phone was gone. "The damned Shawn."

She looked at her watch seeing that it was 1:45 A.M., she'd been out since like seven, and her brother was expecting next door at his place at nine. "Shit, shit shit!"She screamed. Trying to run, but realizing that the stiffness in her aching body was barely allowing her to walk. She finally got up the stairs to her third story apartment and checked herself in the mirror, attempting to coverup her blackeye and bruises with makeup, but figuring it was no use after twenty minutes and walked next door. She knocked first, but when no one answered she used her key. "Hunter? Dave?" She called the sound echoing off the walls. "Anyone home?" She walked into Hunter's room to find him asleep, so she kissed his cheek quietly sobbing and went out to the living room.

"Trish babe?" Dave whispered from the kitchen. "That you?"

"Who else would be sitting on your couch at two in the morning crying her eyes out?" Trish scooted over so Dave Batista-Stratus could sit next to her.

"What's wrong?" He asked as he turned on a light. She turned her face so he wouldn't see the marks, but it was no use, the voices had woken up Hunter who was walking toward her from the other side.

"What the hell happened to you?" He asked, getting an ice pack from the freezer.

"I got into a fight. With Shawn." Hunter was pissed, she could see it, she was afraid to even look at Dave, who was probably seeing red by now.

"Shawn did this to you?" Hunter asked tracing the marks with his fingertips. "Why Trishmas?" He was calling her by her childhood nickname, not a good sign.

"Well, I told him we were related. That you were my brother. And he got upset, he was afraid of you, so I guess he thought he would kill me. But I fought back for a minute, until he knocked me out. I woke up in the dumpster outside."

"Why did he get so upset, we're buddies and Dave and him have always been friends?"

"Yeah, we go way back me and Shawn." Dave said questioningly.

"Because I told him something else too." Trish looked down at her stomach, sighing. "I'm not sure how to tell you this, but I'm pregnant babes." She looked from Dave to Hunter, then back down to her stomach. Dave put his arm around her and hugged her. Hunter did the same. "Just what if the little match tonight hurt the baby? I don't care that it's Shawn's, it's a human life, and I can't kill it." Trish looked up at Hunter who moved his other hand to her stomach and rubbed it back and forth, Dave started rubbing her neck, and holding her hand. "I can't do this on my own. And without Shawn, I will be, my first baby and I have to be the mother and the father."

"Listen, you will never have to do anything on your own. Me and Hunter are here for you. Always. Don't you even start to worry. I have kids, I'll help you. And we'll beat the living hell out of Shawn for ya too."

"Yeah babe, no one will ever hurt you. Ever again." Hunter hugged her closer and rested his head on her shoulder. "Don't even think about it." They sat there for a little while like that, then Dave went off to bed. Trish and Hunter sat there hugging for a while longer Trish was crying and Hunter was shushing her. "You want to go get in my bed, like how we used to when we were little?"

"Yeah, if I go back to my apartment I won't sleep at all." Hunter stood up and Trish started to stand but couldn't quite get it, so Hunter carried her to his room and laid her down on his bed. She moved over to the wall side and he laid down next her. "Thank you Hunter. You and Dave are the best. Christian, well, he wouldn't even care."

"I know, now get some sleep, you have a long day tomorrow, I'm taking you to get checked out." She snuggled up next to her big brother and fell asleep, very deeply.